--- title: buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. What's… — Wasting food and water · tree and pragmatics description: buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. What's the smart way? Test 7 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Wasting food and water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/) / t7 # Test 7 · Wasting food and water buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. What's the smart way? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** buffet kid, smart way · **What happens:** come back, eat, be This is test 7 of lesson 360 «Wasting food and water» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:1 # text = buffet: kid comes back with a mountain of food and eats half. 1 buffet buffet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | buffet kid | | | | | with a mountain of food | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | buffet kid *not said here* | | | | | half *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. *Sentence 2:* What's the smart way? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:2 # text = What's the smart way? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the smart way | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Don't eat at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:o1:1 # text = Don't eat at all 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **eat** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | all | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Take a little, go back for more if hungry ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:o2:1 # text = Take a little, go back for more if hungry 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 obl _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | | 2 | **go back** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for more | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Take one thing only ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:o3:1 # text = Take one thing only 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | one thing | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Take a mountain every time, just in case ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet:t7:o4:1 # text = Take a mountain every time, just in case 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | a mountain | | case | time | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Value in case=Location | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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